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  • #1

    HDMI being phased out?

    Interesting!

    If true, this is getting old. I intentionally bought our RPCRTV with a DVI input only to watch it and eventually the component outputs on my 3803 left behind in short order for HDMI. So begins the move to HDMI and now....

    I'm still perfectly happy with the component output quality but we had to have HDCP. Granted a single cable is nice and beats the hell out of the mess of cables behind my main theater. Planned obsolescence I suppose, sorry for the rant!
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  • #2
    As much as HDMI has taken off and included in everything, I hope this does break through and kill it.

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    • #3
      As much as HDMI has frustrated and irritated me, I don't see anything outright replacing it any time soon. The premise behind HDBaseT appeals, as it provides a locking connector and a far greater maximum cable length, but the industry has had a hell of a time coping with HDMI - at this point, it is well entrenched and not likely to be replaced by something with comparable features that requires you to buy all new equipment.

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      • #4
        I'm actually using HDMI-over-dual-Cat5e adapters right now through the walls.. That'd be nice if I could just take the adapters out and use the Cat5e itself... :)
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        • #5
          How is that working for you Dane?
          Originally posted by dane
          I'm actually using HDMI-over-dual-Cat5e adapters right now through the walls.. That'd be nice if I could just take the adapters out and use the Cat5e itself... :)

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          • #6
            Pretty well, considering. It doesn't pass deep color too well (horizontal banding on video), but that's okay, I still don't know of anything that actually utilizes deep color anyway. :) Keeping it on standard 24bit color works just fine.

            The only real blemish that's come up in recent weeks is that when the air conditioner or ceiling can turns on or off (causing noisy spikes on the power line) the video is lost for about 1 second. It returns just fine though. It did NOT do that until a few weeks or maybe a month ago. The adapters were working fine for a good while up until then. I can only surmise that the power lines are noisier in the summer with all the air conditioners running? I have a few ideas to fix it (a low-wattage APS I'm sure would do the trick nicely), just haven't gotten a "round tuit" yet. :)

            I was sure to route a single 30A circuit to all the HT outlets in the room when we built the addition to avoid just this sort of problem (and ground loop hum). I'm a bit bummed that it is occuring at all, but as I said, I think I can fix it without too much effort-- if I ever get some free time to look into it more.

            Other than that though, it works great and I'm extremely pleased with the results. For a 55-foot run, it was a lot easier to shove a bunch of Cat5e through a 1" conduit than it would have been an HDMI cable with a large connector (and extremely high cost)...

            cheers,
            ..dane
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            • #7
              i am excited for this as i think cat5-6 is a great cabling infrastructure to carry this kind of data over...


              Matt
              Still think Craig is in the "Chase" for that sense of humour. :neener 1:

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              • #8
                I wouldn't put too much stock in this standard. It's already obsolete.

                Cisco was giving us a product demo on their new UCS system, which uses 40 GB ethernet. By the end of this year, the cables will handle 100GB ethernet.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by gwilks98
                  I wouldn't put too much stock in this standard. It's already obsolete.

                  Cisco was giving us a product demo on their new UCS system, which uses 40 GB ethernet. By the end of this year, the cables will handle 100GB ethernet.
                  yes but over ethernet as a standard is a great idea..

                  ethernet isn't going away any time soon..

                  nor are rj45 connectors. hell cat 5 is still a very very common cabling, i know plenty of very large corporations that haven't even rolled out cat 6 as only a few of their network requirements are substantial enough.... isp's, telcos, webhosts, data centers, cdn's, parts of banks, parts of tech companies require 10Gb+ ethernet, but few can really saturate those networks.

                  i say bring on the media over ethernet!!

                  Matt
                  Still think Craig is in the "Chase" for that sense of humour. :neener 1:

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                  • #10
                    Many commercial structures such as office buildings are wired with cat5. There is a lot to be said about utilizing existing infrastructure.

                    I am not sure what will replace HDMI but I know something will replace it eventually.

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